Balance learning and doing

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In my live programs, some guys will come up to me and say something like: “You teach this idea, but here’s a reason why I think it won’t work.” When someone says this to me, I instantly know that he has never actually tried the idea he’s talking about. If you want to know if an idea works, don’t just study it -- go out and do it. Other guys whine that they’ve tried something a thousand times and it doesn’t work. But have they studied different ways of doing it? No. These guys are all about doing, but no learning. They’re all execution with no theory. You need both. If you’re running into a problem, it’s probably because you’re putting too much focus on one theory and not the others.